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A-4 Santa Cruz Sentinel Friday, Nov. 22, 1985 Patton blasts governor for opposing oil-lease ban "The governor decided to thumb his nose at the people of the state and gain the appreciation of the API," Patton said. "That's his choice. "We'll have a choice next year," said the supervisors chairman, who predicted that an anti-leasing coastal coalition seven years in the making would figure heavily in the 1986 gubernatorial race. Patton called the Appropriations Committee vote a "very significant loss" for drilling foes, and said it would be difficult to reverse on the floor of the House of Representatives.

"This means that the whole coast will be open to leasing activity," he said. Patton also said that drilling opponents' defeat in Congress would doom efforts to negotiate a compromise leasing settelment with Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel. "Any negotiation with Hodel about a responsible plan for the entirety of the coast is one the California (congressional) delegation would be negotiating from weakness rather than strength," Patton said. "It means there can be no negotiated settlement for Santa Cm." Hodel earlier this year consented to, and then reneged on, an agreement that would have put all but 150 offshore tracts off limits to oil exploration and development until the year 2000.

Waters off the Santa Cruz County coast were included in the ban. By STEVE SHENDER Sentinel Staff Writer SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gary Patton Thursday blasted Gov. George Deukmejian for his opposition to a continued oil-leasing ban off the California coast, and vowed in Churchillian-like language that state environmentalists had only begun to fight. "We'll fight 'em every inch of the way, right up to the Supreme Court," said Patton of the administration officials and oil industry lobbyists who succeeded in defeating a one-year extension of the oil-leasing moratorium before the House Appropriations Committee Thursday. Patton, who made two trips to Washington to testify in support of the moratorium, also promised to "do everything I can to make it clear to the people of the county and the state that if they want to protect the coast, they'll have to get another governor." Deukmejian is up for re-election next year.

Interior Department officials said Thursday that the department would begin offering tracts for lease in late 1987. The current ban on oil leasing, which as been in effect since 1982, is due to expire at midnight Dec. 14. Patton laid the blame for the leasing moratorium's defeat directly at the door of California's Republican Viy 1352 PACIFIC GARDEN MALL VVx PHONE 423-9370 Famous brand wea ters JsA ONE LOW PRICE! Reg. 25.00-40.00 1 7 City's last chunk of farmland under review by planners Choose from such 'V i a famous makers as i Robert Bruce, f' Jockey, Saturdays and more! A wide J.

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After the vote, Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Monterey, said a letter from Deukmejian to Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten, had influenced the two Massachusetts congressmen, Reps. Edward Boland and Joseph Early. Deukmejian wrote to Whitten to oppose the moratorium, and his letter was circulated to committee members and quoted during the closed-door debate. "Gov.

Deukmejian worked this issue more than ever before," Panetta said Thursday. "I frankly think that had some influence over the two Massachusetts members." Deukmejian first signaled his opposition to a continued leasing ban in a speech to the American Petroleum Institute in San Francisco earlier this week. and Clifford Swenson. One issue is whether a housing project would be approved should the mobile home park present a strong case to challenge it. A Planning Commission subcommittee has held three meetings to hammer out issues in the past several months.

On the subcommittee are commissioners Andy Schiffren, Mo Reich and Katherine Beiers. Planners have referred to the land as a "white hole" in the Local Coastal Plan because city and Coastal Commission officials have never reached agreement on a land-use plan. The Coastal Commission's latest stance on the farmland conversion is considered a key step towards reaching an agreement. City planners are working to meet a General Plan requirement calling for the westside to be developed into a mix of industrial and housing uses, now that the city is 90 percent built out. The plan called the Westside Lands Area Plan is to address future development and the impact of that development on a total of 80 acres, including brussels sprouts fields, a meatpacking plant, the Southern Pacific railroad line.

Younger Lagoon, the laboratory and mobile home park. The two property owners are paying a consulting firm to study such issues as coastal access, streets, density, conservation and a buffer zone for the laboratory. Until recently, the Westside Lands Subcommittee has been moving in the direction of targeting seven acres for coastal open space; seven acres for a "coastal-dependent" fa face trial leave him and come to live with the Taylors. Travnick became nervous and started moving around, then reached or a knife he carried on his belt. Taylor shot him five times in the chest with a .45 caliber automatic pistol he had concealed in the garage.

Taylor then buried Travnick along a road south of Hollister and swore Hendricks to secrecy about the death. When Watts handed down his decision Thursday, Gail Hendricks burst into tears and hugged Trav-nick's mother, who had sat through the hearing. Then she hugged prosecutor Berglund. Taylor showed no sign of emotion. Gail Hendricks had spent tearful hours on the witness stand earlier, testifying that she had learned of Travnick's death about four years after it occurred and that her sister, Suzy, also knew.

And when Taylor learned that Suzy had told someone else, "he told me that if Suzy didn't shut up he was going to kill her." Was she afraid? "I really believed that he would kill my sister." And that was why she didn't tell anybody about the killing? "Yes. I thought that he would kill me too." Suzy's former husband, Jim Graves, also was a witness. But his testimony centered on his fear of Travnick, not Taylor. Graves testified that one time he went to see Suzy at her request, and Travnick demanded money from him, then beat him over the head and in the ribs with a fireplace log. "I have never been so afraid of 8 wol blend v0' sPrt shirts 15.99 WY Regular 22.50 f0v jffNi Popular wool blend sport shirts thiirff Vu are here 'n a wide se'ection of iOrrWlM 9reat l00kin9 plaids.

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In addition, Loomis said, Coastal Commission staff are interested in the option of a "visitor-serving" use, such as a hotel or convention center. Loomis said Coastal Commission staff likes the idea of a "visitor serving, coastal-dependent" use like a hotel, motel or convention and conference center for land north of Delaware Avenue, but is open to reviewing other options, such as industrial or housing uses. For land south of Delaware Avenue, the Coastal Commission staff recommends uses compatible with the laboratory, such as aquaculture. "We'll be working with the city. There are still options left," said Loomis.

for killing anybody in my life," he said. Attorney Wright attempted to use the testimony of Graves and others to prove that Taylor too feared violence at the hands of Travnick, and that when Travnick reached for a knife during the discussion in the garage, Taylor shot him in self-defense. Wright further contended that Taylor forced the family to keep quiet about the shooting out of fear that Travnick's motorcycle gang friends would retaliate. He indicated that he still will use that defense in the trial. Plane crash probe continues AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The investigations of the plane crash that killed Samantha Smith, her father and six others is still in its preliminary stages three months after the accident, says a ranking federal investigator.

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By JOAN RAYMOND Sentinel Staff Writer SANTA CRUZ City and Coastal Commission officials are nearing a compromise on plans for the city's last major chunk of land on the west side. City officials are encouraged by the latest word from Coastal Commission staff on conversion of farm fields to a mix of housing and "coastal-dependent" uses, city Senior Planner Joe Hall said today. Coastal Commission staff is now agreeing with the city's position there is a reason to convert farmland into other uses. City planners hope apartments or condominiums can eventually be built on a substantial part of the land to ease the housing shortage. The acreage bounded by De Anza Mobile Estates, the UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Laboratory, the beach and Mission Street is the city's largest vacant parcel left for possible housing development, said Hall.

The need for housing is expected to acutely increase as young families make up more of the city's population. Dave Loomis, Coastal Commission district director, said today: "I hate to say it, but the city has technically made a case for converting good, productive agricultural lands." He said the conversion is eyed more favorably because of recent changes in coastal law. Keeping a wary eye on the plans are De Anza mobile home park residents, Long Marine Laboratory, brussels sprouts growers and two key property owners, Larry Wolfsen Man must By DON WILSON Sentinel Staff Writer SANTA CRUZ Jerry Lynn Taylor, 43, will have to face trial on a charge of murder, Acting Municipal Court Judge Philip Watts has decided. Watts Thursday ordered Taylor to stand trial in Superior Court after a two-week preliminary hearing. Defense Attorney Steve Wright argued that at worst, Taylor should be charged with voluntary manslaughter in the 1974 shooting death of Ronald Travnick.

He has contended that the shooting was in self-defense. Assistant District Attorney Jim Berglund, however, argued that Taylor had carefully planned the killing and that it was deliberate. Watts agreed. After listening to testimony, Watts said the charge will be murder and that Taylor "lay in wait" for his victim a charge that could lead to the death penalty if the District Attorney's Office files charges of first-degree murder with special circumstances. According to testimony in the hearing: Taylor was married to Gail Hendricks.

They lived in Felton. Hendricks has a sister, Suzy Graves, who was living with Travnick in Stockton. She also had a brother, Garold Hendricks, also living in Stockton. Taylor learned that Suzy and Ron were having trouble. He summoned the family to his home in Felton.

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